DIGBY MANOR NEWS

Welcome to January’s Newsletter 2020 Edition No. 25

Happy New Year to all our friends and family members of the Digby Manor Community!

We all look forward to another fantastic year ahead. Digby Manor continues to go from strength to strength and we have just had it confirmed by Global Health and Pharmaceutical (GHP) that we have been awarded ‘Best Residential Care Home 2019 for Birmingham’. This is 2 years in succession that we have received this accolade.

We have also been rated the top care home for the whole of the West Midlands area by ‘carehome.co.uk’. This award is part of their Care Homes Awards for Excellence in Social Care and it is now 2 years in succession where we have topped the charts as their no.1 rated top care home. This is fantastic news for our residents and staff who do a truly remarkable job day in and day out and this is an acknowledgement of their excellent work.

However, we are not content with just ‘good’ and so we have been working hard in partnerships with all our stakeholders as we strive for ‘outstanding’ by the regulator. Our CQC inspection in March 2019 identified a lot of good practice and we want to build on this to show everyone connected with Digby Manor that we truly are an outstanding home where we only want to be ‘excellent’ for all that we do.

To keep you updated on the extension plans, I am pleased to report that the front conservatory has been approved by the council to be removed and be replaced with a more permanent structure. It is our aim that the improvement will be a more welcoming entrance for everyone visiting the Home. To minimise the impact on our resident’s and staff it has been provision-ally agreed, (in consultation with the management), that this improvement will take place in the Summer of 2020.

Advance bookings have already been made ahead in the calendar year for various shows and events. Also Megan and Louise will also continue to sing weekly as the residents do love their sing-a-longs. So we anticipate another super year for all our residents. Digby Manor is a special place and one that I hope you agree puts a smile on people’s faces.

Best wishes to you all for 2020,

Darren Somauroo

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. We at Digby Manor have had a fantastic

time throughout the Christmas period and it was great to see so many wonderful relatives joining in.

We would like to thank you all for your continued support of Digby Manor. It means a lot to our

community that our residents have families who take time and enjoy spending time with us at Digby

Manor.

Here are some of our activities that we have enjoyed.

LOLLIPOP PONIES ENJOYED BY ALL. Sunny

and Cher came to visit.

Before and after. Yum yum! Plates polished off and some

had seconds. Just what we like to see. Lovely to see that

so many family members came to have xmas lunch with

loved ones, staff , management and owners.

Xmas coffee

morning

set up.

The cook taste

testing!!

Wonderful to see the Providers joining in with

our festivities. They look like they are having too

much fun. Everyone knows everyone

Get those arms up guys! 1,2,3,4

Working off the Christmas

dinner!

Some of our

Christmas card

making.

Brogan is a regular visitor to Digby Manor and

loves to play basket ball with all the residents.

On this occassion he had his teacher hat on and

was trying to teach Nana how far to throw the

ball.

We have had visits from the both children’s

nurseries . They came to do some art work

with us and then we had some Christmas

songs and musical instruments. The resi-

dents thoroughly enjoyed their time

together. Some of the children made some

calendars for our resident’s to put up in

their rooms.

Ho Ho Ho! Its off too work I go!

Father Christmas came to Digby Manor to visit the resident’s,

staff, and nursery children.

Karaoke and Christmas carols. Oh what a night. Even the

manager was up there strutting her stuff!

Residents had some beautiful voices.

Flower Arranging

How lovely do they look?

Great job guys!

Winners of our Christmas raffle. Congratulations to you all.

Thank you to everyone for your support. It was a great after-

noon with lots of fun. Thank you to Louise for your beautiful

voice once again. (I secretly think Darren loves the camera!)

And movie time: It’s a wonderful life!

As you can see we have done alot through December and we couldn’t fit in all the pictures. We are now looking for-

ward to the New Year ahead and Welcoming in 2020. We are booking more activities throughout the year and so

far we have the ponies booked in again on February 10th as they were a big hit.

We also have a Folk Duo Filkins Drift with fiddle and guitar coming in on March 6th to

do a concert for our residents. We would love you to come and join us for any of

these activities.

If you have any further

thoughts on new activities

please let us know.

We have been looking at research

from a study that has been done

to support those residents suffer-

ing with dementia. The results

show that to have a more settled

night and to be able to relate to it

being night time as part of sleep

therapy we are trialling wearing

pyjamas at night for all our staff.

It is in the early stages but initial findings

are that when a resident wakes up

through the night and the carer attending

to them is wearing their pyjamas they are

more likely to recognise it is still night

time. Results are looking positive up to

now.

Happy Birthday to all of our Christmas babies.

Evelyne, Florence,

Reginald (Christmas Eve baby),

David (New Years Eve baby).

And also not forgetting Joan !

Hope you all had a wonderful

birthday.